All new and current PhD students as well as Master students thinking of doing a PhD

Course elements:

-How to get accepted to do a PhD

-Writing a proposal

-Supervisory meeting

-Writer’s block

-Publishing

-Putting a rough draft

-Submitting the thesis

-VIVA

-Corrections

Course outcome:

-Get a better understanding of what the PhD process entails

-Get advise on what the publishing process entails

-Know what to expect at the VIVA

-Other skills and your questions answered

Trainers’ Bio

Dr. Taghreed M. Al-Saraj is currently a research fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Education, University of London in 2011. She received her Undergraduate and Masters’ degrees from the University of Miami, Florida, where she also worked as a Research Assistant there.

Dr. Al-Saraj is now a Director on the Board of Alumni at the University of Miami, FL. Prior to beginning her doctoral research; Dr Al-Saraj was an English language lecturer at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Having seen first-hand the debilitating effects of FLA in the classroom, Dr Al-Saraj is very motivated to raise teachers’ awareness about FLA in the Middle East. Dr Al-Saraj has presented on the topic of Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) in the Arab World at international conferences around the world, including at Waseda University in Tokyo, Saudi Ministry of Education in Jeddah, TESOL Arabia in Dubai, TESOL International in the United States, University of Texas at Austin, and the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) in the United Kingdom.